Özlem, has 24 years of experience in the sector, having worked at Tacirler Yatırım Menkul Değerler for more than six years before joining Rota Portfolio, and previously as an Economist at Phillip Capital, Unicorn Capital, Ekspres Investment, HC Istanbul and Ege Yatırım Menkul Değerler. She continues her career as a Chief Economist and has been extensively institutionalised abroad within the framework of her field, and presents strategies and current analyses on macroeconomic developments. Gökşen graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Department of Econometrics, followed by “Global Business Management” at the University of California Riverside, and then received her master's degree from Marmara University, Social Sciences Institute, Department of Political Science and International Relations.

Metin Tayfun was born in Istanbul in 1955. He completed his high school education in Virginia, US. In 1977, received his mechanical engineering degree, followed by a master’s degree in industrial engineering, both from Texas A&M University. His work experience covers 3.5 years at Amoco Production in Texas, two years at Colakoglu Metalurji, then 26 years at companies including Borusan Group, Monroe Shockabsorbers, Caterpillar and Mannesmann Pipe. In 2010, he joined Colakoglu Metalurji as the company switched its production from long products to mainly flat products. He is a founding member of both the Thrace Industrialists Association and Turkey’s Construction Machinery Industry Association and is a board member of the Automotive Suppliers Association of Turkey (TAYSAD). He is also the chairman of Turkey’s Association of Flat Steel Exporters and Manufacturers (YISAD).

Ronald has worked with Tata Steel and its predecessors for more than 25 years. Holding a Masters degree in Geology, he started working for the aluminium division, followed by various operational and management roles in marketing, sales and business development. Ronald has experience in the USA acting as Vice President of Sales Americas and was President of IMD, a trading house within the group. In his current role as Director Markets & Pricing Ronald is responsible for Tata Steel’s regional office's network, trade matters and pricing.

Stanislav is the CEO GMK Center, Chair of the Committee for Environment and Sustainable Development of the European Business Association, President of CSCMP Ukraine Roundtable. Last 5 years provides consulting services for Ukrainian iron & steel companies in sustainability issues, supply chains, CAPEX policy, market analysis. Stanislav Zinchenko has 15-years experience in consulting for manufacturing companies. He has expertise in operational management and supply chains as a team leader, consultant and analyst in international projects in the field of entrepreneurship, operational efficiency and logistic infrastructure. Stanislav has an MA in International Economics at Kyiv National Economic University.

After graduating from Oxford University in 1977, with a degree in Mathematics, Dick has spent the last 42 years permanently employed in the steel trade. Over half of those years with current employer Stemcor. Dick’s experience ranges from his earlier years importing flat rolled steel and long products into the UK market, through a period trading long products across the globe, then a decade trading raw materials for steel making, and for the last five years looking after much of Stemcor’s European import and distribution business. Three times Chairman of the International Steel Trade Association, Dick has a wealth of experience, both sourcing and marketing steel products and steel making raw materials, across the globe.

Bart is a civil engineer in metallurgy and materials science from the University of Gent, Belgium and started his career in 1998 at ArcelorMittal in Gent, Belgium as manager of metallurgical programming. He spent several years as manager of technical and commercial support for European flat industry customers before being appointed head of the technical customer team for North Europe in 2009. In 2010, he was appointed commercial country head Benelux. In 2018, he joined the Europe Flat CMO Industry management committee as head of segment & product sales steering and technical customer support coordination for Europe, prior to his current role since September 2021.

Selçuk was born in İskenderun, Türkiye. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ), department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2008. Having worked as Production Manager and Production Director at various flat steel mills between 2009-2018, he joined Yıldız Demir Çelik AŞ as Supply Chain Director, in March 2018. During this period He also completed EMBA program at Sabancı University. Since August 2022, Selçuk is acting as Deputy General Manager for Commercial at Yıldız Demir Çelik before being promoted recently to General Manager.

Gorkem received his master's degree in Management of Business Administration in 2002 from La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA. He started his career in the US, working in multinational companies such as Saint Gobain. Later, he went on to work in the stock market fortune 500 company SEI Investments as a mutual fund trader in the US. In 2005, he took a challenge in the steel industry and started to work for steel producers as an executive for export markets. Then, he was appointed as a director of the steel desk of LN metals, a commodity trading company in London. In 2012, Gorkem founded Galex Steel International -- a trading house mainly focused on flat steel products and exports to Europe, Turkey, South America, Middle East and Far East. Galex represents reputable government and private mills from China, India and Turkey on regional or project basis. The company covers global markets through its offices in Turkey, China, India and Russia.

Steven Vercammen is a senior expert in McKinsey & Company’s Belgium Office. Since he joined in 2004, he has worked on steel and steel value chain related projects (carbon and stainless steel). Whilst early on focusing on operational improvement, market analysis (supply/demand) and technical benchmarking, in recent years Steven has specialized in sustainability topics related to the steel industry. As part of the global steel industry dynamics knowledge, Steven is the global expert on steel metallics dynamics covering scrap supply, demand and pricing evolution and decarbonization. In addition, Steven is global research leader for steel and metals in general, responsible for proprietary knowledge assets linked to cost curves, demand, supply, capital markets and overall market dynamics. Prior to joining McKinsey, Steven worked at the KU Leuven university as the “science engineering technology” group manager responsible for research strategy, educational programs and day to day management of all support functions. Steven has obtained a PhD in materials engineering (steel) from the KU Leuven and obtained engineering masters diploma from the university of Ghent in Belgium

Luca was born in Firenze, Italy and holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, specialising in Industrial Electronics. He began his career as a process engineer at Alcoa Italy, working in the hot and cold rolling area of aluminium plates and strips. In late 2000, he joined Danieli Group as a Project Manager for Danieli Automation where he primarily worked on projects related to the processing of flat products. He transitioned into Danieli Automation Sales Team in 2002, taking on increasing responsibilities in sales management for the Flat Products Business Unit. In 2020, he was appointed Executive Vice President, Direct Sales and Green Steel, with a focus on green transition technologies and systems for steel production. In early 2021, he moved into Danieli & C.. He was assigned the role of Vice President of Sales for QSP Due Team, a group division specialising in the design, development, and commissioning of thin slab casting and rolling.

Friso was born in 1970 in the Netherlands. He earned a MSc degree at Delft University of Technology in Materials Science. He took several classes in marketing, strategic management and governance at Henley, IMD and Erasmus. Friso has worked and lived in the USA, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands. After his start in R&D and production management with Volvo Aero and Aluminium Pechiney, Friso held several commercial positions in the steel industry with Corus and Tata Steel. He was, amongst others, responsible for mill sales to service centers in South-Europe and for the EMEA sales of specialty plated strip products. He was appointed CEO of a Tata Steel JV active in trade, steel service and fabrications. He is founder and initiator of Steelport Maastricht. His broad and international experience from mill sales, trading and service centers all the way down the supply-chain to manufacturing, strengthened and inspired him to launch himself into entrepreneurship. He acquired his own steel trading/service organisation early 2019.

After graduating from University of Genoa Italy, Mario achieved a Master of Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He started his career in Duferco in 2002 and after an experience in Carbofer, he co-founded DP Trade SA in 2009. Open-minded and flexible, he is able to adapt the company policy and strategy to the fast-changing circumstances. Married and with three children, he practices triathlon and skiing.

Thomas is Vice President Sustainability & Public Affairs, at SSAB. He has an MBA from Uppsala University and an MSc from KTH in Stockholm. Thomas has vast experience in general management, sales, market intelligence as well as sustainability. Thomas’s previous roles include Managing Director of Ruukki Sverige, Senior Vice President & International Sales at Ruukki Metals Ltd, Vice President at Atlas Copco Dynapac and Vice President Corporate Marketing & Sales at steel provider Ovako. Thomas’s career started at ABB, which he left as Vice President in 2004, after almost 13 years of management positions in the metals industry activities. He has unique insights into the incorporation of sustainability into the business model of the organization.  

Hasan completed his studies at Middle East Technical University, majoring in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, in 1989. He began his professional career as a process engineer at Etibank Ferrochrome Plant, where he worked from 1989 to 1992. Between 1992 and 2017, Hasan worked in various departments, including Blast Furnace, Raw Materials Procurement, Logistics, and Cokemaking, at Eregli Iron and Steel Works Co. Subsequently, he served as Refractory Production Manager at KÜMAŞ Refractories Co. from 2017 to 2018. From 2019 to 2021, Hasan worked as the executive vice president of operations at Karabuk Iron Steel Industry Trade & Co. Inc. Presently, he holds the position of Technical Affairs Director at Turkish Steel Producers Association, where he actively supports and participates in decarbonisation activities in the Turkish Steel Industry. Hasan is married and has a daughter and son.

Ian is a highly regarded industry analyst, with over 20 years experience in metals, starting at CRU in London. Since 2003 Ian was based in Shanghai, China initially with Steel Business Briefing and then Macquarie, before a five-year stint at Rio Tinto running their iron ore analysis. Since 2010 Ian worked as a sell-side analyst with CLSA, Macquarie and others based in Shanghai and Singapore and continues to bring his leading-edge thoughts on the markets as an unbiased independent analyst. 

Dom arrives with 28 years of journalism experience, most of it in business/financial roles especially in metals, industrial supply chain and transportation. From 2016 to 2022, he covered the North American steel beat at Fastmarkets (previously known as American Metal Market), where he was a senior price reporter. Dom first entered the hard commodities space in 2005 as a contributing writer and editor with COINage magazine, covering precious metals and base metals. Later he was editor-in-chief at Professional Mariner magazine. Dom was national president of the 1,800-member American Society of Business Publication Editors from 2017 to 2019 and remains an active board member in the society's New York chapter. He is also a member of the New York Press Club.

Malvika joined Kallanish Index Services (KIS) as a Pricing Analyst in early 2023. Her role focuses on the hydrogen sector and includes monitoring market trends and conducting comprehensive analyses of market dynamics, production costs and competitive factors. Additionally, she is involved in the development of hydrogen pricing models and the evaluation of cost structures for different production technologies in key regions of the world. Malvika’s research has included the role hydrogen and new technologies are playing in the transition to a green steel industry and, through this, she has developed a detailed understanding of steel decarbonisation projects globally. Prior to joining KIS, Malvika graduated with a Master's degree in Financial Technology from the University of Exeter in the UK.

Paul is a Director and Co-founder of Kallanish, which he helped to create after working for Steel Business Briefing as General Manager for Asia. With the co-founders, he felt there was a gap for simple, good quality journalism and market intelligence combined with a focus on listening to customer needs. Kallanish aims to put the customer at the forefront of everything it does. Previously, Paul was a Commercial Director and negotiated strategic alliances for blue chip companies in the payments industry. He also holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. Paul is based in Kallanish’s London HQ and previously lived in Paris and Shanghai. He speaks fluent French and conversational Mandarin.

Having graduated from university in England's steel city of Sheffield, Adam was destined to end up in a career related to the steel industry. He has worked at Kallanish since 2014 as an editor for The Middle East and Turkey, as well as CIS and Eastern Europe, contributing his experience gained from five years in Dubai of the vibrant and fast-growing Middle Eastern and Turkish markets. Adam regularly attends events in the Middle East and Europe, moderating and speaking at some of them. He was previously steel editor at Platts in Dubai and before that Central and Eastern European reporter for Steel Business Briefing in London. Adam prides himself on providing friendly, informative and accurate journalism. He is currently based in Austria and speaks fluent Polish and intermediate German. 

Emanuele Norsa is a respected analyst and consultant for the European steel market. During the last fifteen years, he has worked for news and price agencies such as Steel Business Briefing, Platts, Kallanish and Siderweb. He often features at international events organised by leading international associations and companies.

Burak is Middle East Editor at Kallanish. He looks after pricing analysis for all carbon and stainless steel products, pig iron and rebar for designated markets, with a particular focus on Gulf countries, South Africa and Egypt. He has over ten years of experience foreign trade business as entrepreneur and worked as coordinator in investment projects mainly in Turkey. Before pandemic he worked as lecturer-tourist guide in Turkey. Burak speaks English, Turkish and intermediate level German.